Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, I began to have trouble speaking. Quite suddenly I was forced to develop a new approach to management and leadership that involved a lot less talking. When it’s hard to talk, you develop strategies for doing less of it.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Are there “best” ways to develop current and future leaders? What process will transform managers into leaders ready for strategic action? Who will design, manage, and deliver world-class leadership programs? What process will transform managers into leaders? How will we pick our leaders?

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Leadership Decentralization Human Resources Competitive Advantage 117

Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. By 2024, the global blockchain market is projected to exceed $60 billion. Blockchain-Powered Content. It levels the playing field.

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Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 63

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. The results were telling. Technology trends.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many companies have managed to gain an edge tapping into its transformative power. Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. Make sure top management understands this.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. In the U.S., Handoff errors would result.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. Each brings its own challenges.

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Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Inside, elaborate security procedures, long working hours, and deference to senior managers are all in plain view. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution.

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Productivity Products Decentralization Supply Chain 8

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Here are 3 reasons I personally prefer a team approach for this function of our church: Decentralized control - With one person in charge, if that person gets sick, moves, or decides he or she gets tired and quits, the whole church would suffer. Using a team provides more opportunities to assign leadership tasks.

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Teamwork Edmondson Decentralization Maturity 53

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. But after the Great Recession of 2007-2009, when developed economies effectively froze in place, their appetites only sharpened. Of course, everyone knows that conducting business in some of these markets can be risky. Crime exacts a toll.

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Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Since the mid-2000s, however, this model has been under threat from a new, decentralized model, in which electricity is generated on a much smaller scale near or at the point of use, often through a combination of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and the digital management of the electricity grid.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. We believe the answer is yes.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The lifecycle of a so-called “data product” mirrors standard product development: identifying the opportunity to solve a core user need, building an initial version, and then evaluating its impact and iterating. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups. But the data component adds an extra layer of complexity.

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Productivity Products How To Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Would Gerber own today's V8?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. How centralized is the Innovation Unit?

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.”

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

After more than a century trying to prove the opposite, economic theorists investigating the matter finally concluded in the 1970s that there is no reason to believe markets are led, as if by an invisible hand, to an optimal equilibrium — or any equilibrium at all. An engineering analogy may help.

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Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences.

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Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market. over the next three years. Cultural variations are important.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. in close partnership with the University of Warwick. and the U.K.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. By far the best and most useful approach for managing those tensions is Michael Jensen’s path-breaking work in decision rights a quarter-century ago. So the companies push hard to provide both.

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RACI Agility Brand Management Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Given the amount of research that business schools have dedicated to understanding change management, the number of books and articles published on the subject, and the investment that companies have made in consultants and training, one would think that we would be doing better by now. The change management work focused on execution.

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Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

To be sure, some SOEs have become formidable competitors, nurtured by their large home markets and having developed the capabilities to compete with Western multinational companies. However, these Chinese companies only want to gain market share locally and globally — just like every other multinational company in the world.

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Globalization Decentralization Politics Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. If the gender issue is well positioned from the start, as a strategic, customer and talent-driven business imperative, it inevitably attracts the most adaptable and open-minded managers, who use the concept as a way to generate fresh thinking about the company's opportunities.

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Decentralization Brand Workshop Advertising 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. I advocate teaching the 60% what they can do to deliver value even in difficult circumstances (working with non-supportive leaders or in difficult markets, for example).

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Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” auto market.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Either there''s a bottom-up communications problem where the messages aren''t connecting with their targets, or there''s a top-down problem where management isn''t clear on what its message is. Such organizations send mixed messages to the market, muddying their value proposition. Communication Marketing Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Managing Carbon and Energy. Brand-Building and Customer Connection.

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Banks have developed smartphone apps to enable instant deposits and other forms of self-service—both delighting customers and also allowing branch staff to concentrate less on routine transactions and more on providing the higher-touch personal services their best customers value. Those stories might come from mundane, everyday service.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. In the last few years especially we have seen this through our Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. shifting results.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The ability to mine the digital data consumers leave behind on the internet, social media, driving apps and even health-monitoring wearables could help carriers to better target customers, price and underwrite policies more accurately, and manage claims more effectively. So what does digital excellence in insurance look like?

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Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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